Physics
Hey Fellow Kids, This Is How You Flip a Water Bottle
New paper by undergrads illuminates the physics behind the Water Bottle Challenge
Explorers Will Face Dangerous Amounts of Radiation On Their Trip to Mars
New data from the Mars Trace Gas Orbiter shows just the flight there and back alone will expose astronauts to 60 percent the lifetime radiation dose
The Universe's Strongest Material is a Cosmic Lasagna
A new study suggests that the "nuclear pasta" found in neutron stars is 10 billion times stronger than steel
Should the Nobel Prizes Take a Year Off?
An award designed to go to those who benefit all humanity has a history of prejudice and controversy
Astronomers Spot Galactic Wind From Early Universe
The ejection of molecular gas from a galaxy 12 billion light-years away may have kept an early galaxy from burning out too quickly
Japan Takes Tiny First Step Toward Space Elevator
Two mini-satellites will test elevator motion in space as part of research for an elevator between Earth and low orbit
Watch This New Device Print Using Sound Waves
Harvard scientists develop a printing technique that could impact a slew of industries, from biopharmaceuticals to food and cosmetics
See Leonardo da Vinci's Genius Yourself in These Newly Digitized Sketches
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has made ultra high-resolution scans of two codices available online
Monster Galaxy Churns Out 1,000 Times As Many Stars As Our Own
COSMOS-AzTEC-1 is almost 13 billion years old highly organized but unstable and could shed light on galaxy evolution
STEVE the Purple Beam of Light Is Not An Aurora After All
In a second study of mysterious phenomena, researchers discovered that solar particles hitting the ionosphere do not power the violet, vertical streaks
Physics Reveals How to Break Spaghetti Cleanly In Two
Our collective culinary nightmare is over
Scientists Give New Particle Accelerator the Thumbs Up
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine endorses the $1 billion Electron-Ion Collider
Check Out These Awesome New 3D, Full-Color X-Rays
The scanner uses technology developed for the Large Hadron Collider
The Scientific Quest For the Perfect S’more
A trial by fire
Researchers Find More Evidence for the Higgs Boson
Analysis of years of data from the Large Hadron Collider shows evidence the particle decays into bottom quarks
Neanderthals Hunted in Groups, One More Strike Against the Dumb Brute Myth
The skeletons of deer killed 120,000 years ago offer more evidence of cooperative behavior and risk-taking among our hominin relatives
The Physics Behind a Leaky Faucet’s Maddening ‘Plink’
Microphones and high-speed cameras show that what happens when a water droplet hits water is surprisingly complicated
The Large Hadron Collider Is Getting A Huge Power Boost
A multi-year upgrade will lead to up to 10 times the collisions, and perhaps the discovery of mysterious new particles
A Message From Stephen Hawking Is On Its Way to a Black Hole
After his ashes were interred at Westminster Abbey, a musical composition and "message of hope" were broadcast toward 1A 0620-00, the nearest black hole
'HALO' Makes Art Out of Subatomic Particle Collisions at Art Basel
The site-specific installation by British artist duo Semiconductor revisits the universe’s first moments
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